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iuo'Iit of the future, ahould be early
Ihu little ac(hte of the toilette, her
own drvhsor, she who one day 11! !
the drraacr of her children, but with
tusic and l di' Kin of Improvisation to
j.iTMonlfy luTsvlf in this chlff work
of feminine ironallty. a rot with
out which woman is nothing more
than a humllo of rax."
The dress that one makes om'sclf
Is iifarly always the one that becomes
one best; In any case, li Is the one
that gives you the most pleasuro.
That is what most women forget loo
often. The working woman an 1 the
peasant commit the same error. Since
they all dress theinsuIveM from the
rendy-made Mores, where they sell
ery doubtful imitations of the best
styles, grace has almost disappeared
from popular costume. And yet, la
there In the world anything which has
the K'ft of pleasing more than tho
fresh appearance of a young working
girl, or a young girl from the fields,
dressed In the mode of their couutry,
and beautiful In their simplicity only?
These same reflections nay be ap
plied to the mode of arranging and
decorating one's habitation, if there
are toilettes which reveal a whole
conception of life, hats which are
poems, knots which are cocarues,
there are also arrangements of the
house which. In their way, apeak to
the mind. Why, under the pretext of
embellishing our houses, do we tako
away from their personal character
which always has Its value? Why
make our rooms like those of hotels
or the parlors In railway stations, by
force of making the uniform type of
official beauty predominate there?
What misery it is to go through the
houses In a city, cities, or a country
or the countries of a vast continent.
and find everywhere certain Identical
forms. Inevitable, Identical, Irritating
by multiplicity. How much aesthelc
Ism would gain by simplicity! In
stead of this luxury of little notions,
flotsam from the sea, all those pre
tentious but Insipid and banal orna
ments, we should have an Infinite di
versity. Treasure-trove happily com
bined would strike our eyes. The un
foreseen in a thousand forms would
cause us to rejoice, and we would find
again the secret of painting a tapes
try, an old piece of furniture, the roof
of a house, and that seal of human
personality which gives to ccr:ain an
tiques an inestimable value.
Let us continue, and pass on to
things still more simple. I wish to
speak of the small de'a'ls of 1 1;'
know how to make valuable by
tueaoa of the poo real Instrument, and
aruldat the woral dlfflcullle. Wbea
the room la small and the family pursn
meaner, the labia mod eat, a woman
who baa (hi gift find the mean of
raustnf order, neatr.es and drworvm
lo relcn there Bhe put rare and art
Into everything she undertakes To
do well what one ha to do I oot In
her eye (he privilege of (he rich, but
the rlgb( of all It la for that that
ahe employs It. and that ahe knows
bow to endow ber home with a dig
nity and a pleaantne which the
more fortunate home, where every
thing la left to mercenaries, never at
tain. Lift thua understood does not de
lay la revealing Itaelf rich In unknown
beauties. In attractions, and Intimate
satisfactions. To be oneself, to rval
lie In one's natural surrounding the
kind of beauty that belongs to It. that
Is the Ideal beauty. As the mission
of woman grows In depth and mean
ing, she will hare learned thus to put
ber soul Into things, and to five to
that soul kindness aa an outward sym
bol of these agreeable and delicate
proceeding to which the motit brutal
of beings are sensible. Would thl
not be better than to desire what they
have not got. and apply their desire
to the clumsy Imltallou of strange or
uauieuts?
to (hoe Interested : Taka ear: do
not confound what you poa with
bat you are. Learn the aeamy side
of the splendors of the world, that
you may the childishness and mor-
tal misery of them mora forcibly
Pride lo truth lays traps too rldlcw-
lous for us. We must auaect a com
paaion which makes ua hateful to our
neighbor and causes ua to lose ou
clearness of vision V
Tboae who deliver themselves up
to the pride of wealth forget anothe
point and the most Important of all
which la, that to poesess U a social
function. Without doubt. Individual
property It as legitimate aa the ei
Utence even of the Individual and aa
hi liberty Those two things are In
separable, and It Is an Utopia, full of
dangers, to attack such elementary
bases of all life Hut the Individual
belongs to society with all his fibres
and all ha does should be done la
view of the whole. To possess Is,
therefore, less of a privilege, which It
pleaaes him to glorify, than a charge
whose gravity he feel. Just as It re
quires on to serve an apprenticeship,
often difficult, to be able to exercise
all the social functions, so does lhat
function which la called riches exact
an apprenticeship. The greater part
of the people, poor or rich. Imagine
that In opulence there la nothing to
do but to let one's self live. That la
why ao few people know how to be
rlcb. In the hand of a too great num
ber wealth la, according to a Jovial
CHAPTER XII.
PRIDE AND SIMPLICITY IN SO
CIAL RELATIONS.
THE ALONZO 0. BLISS CO,
WASHINGTON. D. C
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housekeeping that many young p
sons of these days find so little pjet
Ic. Their scorn of material occupa
tions, the modest cares which a home
demands, come from a very common
confusion, but one none the less
dreadful. This confusion consists In
thinking that paetry and beauty are
In things where they are not. There
are distinguished occupations, grace
ful. such as the cultivation of litera
ture, the playing of the harp; and
coarse occupations, unpleasant, suc'a
as blacking shoes, sweeping rooms, or
watching the kettle on the fire. Puer
ile error! Neither the harp nor the
broom has anything to do with the
affair; all depends on the hand which
holds them and the spirit that anl
mates mat nana. Foetry is not in
things; It is In us. We must Impress
it upon the objects as the sculptor im
poses his dream on the marble. If
our lives and our occupations remain
too often without charm in spite of
their external distinction. It is be
cause we have not known how to add
it. The height of art is to give life to
that which is inert, to tame that which
is savage. I would that our young
girls would apply themselves to de
velop in themselves the essentially
feminine art. to give soul to things
that have none. The triumph of wo
manly grace 'Hps in that work. Wo
man alone knows "hQw" to put into a
house that I know not what, whose
virtue caused the poet to say: "The
roof grows gay and laughs." They
say there are no fairies, or that there
are no more, but they do not know what
they are talking about. The original
model of the fairies, sung by the
poets, they found, and still find among
those amiable mortals who know how
to knead their bi-ead with energy,
mend the holes 'wita kindness, care
for the sick while trailing, put grace
in a ribbon, and put their mind into a
B. G. Rozaer, Lumberton
fried alsn.
It la very certain that th rultur-
of the One arts has something moral
izing, and that our thoughts and acta
become Impregnated at length by that
which strikes our eyes. But the ex
ercise of the arts, and the contemnla
tion of their product, are privileges re
served to a few. It la not given to
very one to possess, to understand
or to create- beautiful thinga. But
there la a kind of human beauty which
" can penetrate everywhere: the bead
i tr which la born In the hands cf our
It would, perhaps, be difficult to
prove a subject better qualified than
pride to prove that the obstacles to
a bettor life, stronger and more peace
ful, are more in ourselves than In cir
cumstances. Tho diversity and, above
all. the contrast of social situations,
inevitably cause all sorts of conflicts
to surge upon us. But how many of
these relations between members of
the same society would not be, in
spite of all, simplified if we put an
other spirit In the frame traced In
external necessities! Ret ua be well
persuaded that It .is not after all the
difference In classes, functions, the
so dissimilar forms of our destines,
which embroil men. If that were the
case we should see an Idyllic peace
reign between colleagues, comrades,
and all men with analogous interests
and similar destiny. Every one knwa
on the contrary, that the bitterest
quarrels are those which arise among
similar things, and that there is no
war worse than civil war. But what
hinders men from living in accord is,
before all, pride. Pride makes man
like a hedge hog, which cannot touch
any one without wounding him. Let
us speak first of the pride of the great
ones.
What displeases me in the rich man
who passes In his carriage, ls not his
equipage, nor his toilette, nor tha
number and swiftness of his domestic
service. It ls bis scorn. That be has
a great fortune does not wound me
unless I have a hateful disposition,
but that he throws mud on me, rides
over my body, shows in his whole at
titude that I count for nothing in his
eyes because I am not rich like him;
that ls where I feel the hurt, and with
good reason. He imposes a suffer
ing upon me. and after all a suffering
quite useless. He Insults me and hu
miliates me gratuitously. It is not
what is vulgar in him, but what there
is the noblest in me. which rises In
face of that wounding pride. Do not
accuse me of envy, for I feel none. It
is my dignity as man that is touched
It is useless to seek far to illustrate
one's impressions. All men who
have seen life have had many expert
ences which will justify our words in
their eyes. In certain centers de
voted to material Interests, pride of
wealth dominates to such a point that
men quote each other as they quote
values on the exchange. Esteem Is
measured according to the contents
of the strong-box. Good society ls
composed of big fortunes; the middle
class, lesser fortunes. Then come the
people of little means, and those of
nothing. On all occasions they act
upon that principle. And he who, rel
atively rich, has shown his disdain
for those less opulent than himself, la
watered, in his turn, with the disdain
of his superiors in fortune. Thus the
rage of comparison saps from summit
to foundation. Such a center is as
though prepared to order for the cul
tlvatlon of the worst sentiments; but
it ls not the riches. It is the spirit they
put into them that we should accuse,
Some rich men have not that coarse
conception above all, those who,
from father to son, are accustomed to
ease. But they forget that there Is a
certain delicacy in not causing the
contrasts to be too marked. Suppos
lng that there is no harm in the eh
joyment of a great superfluity, 13 It
indispensable to spread out. this super
fluity, to" shock the eyes of those who
have not the necessaries, and to af
fix tttis luxury close to poverty? Good
taste and a sort of modesty will al
ways hinder a portly man from speak
ing of his vigorous appetite, his peace
ful slumber, of his Joy in living, by
the side of some one who is fading
away with consumption. Many rlcu
men lack tact, and sometimes by that
they lack even pity and prudence. Are
they not from then on badly inspired
in complaining of the envy of others,
after having done all in their power
to provoke it?
But what they lack most is discern
ment, when they put their pride in
their fortune, or when they let them
selves drift unconsciously with the
seductions of luxury. Firstly, it is to
fall into a puerile confusion to con
sider riches a personal quality. One
could not mistake. In a fashion more
slmple.between the reciprocal value of
the. envelope andMts contents. I do
not wish to bear too heavily 00 that
and redoubtable comparison of Luth
er s, like a harp In a donkey's hoofs
they have no Idea of how to use 1L
a
So, when one meet a man, rich and
simple at the same time, that Is to say
who considers his riches as a means
of filling hi humane mission, we
should respectfully salute him, for he
1 certainly somebody. He has con
quered obstacles, surmounted trials
and triumphed In the vulgar or subtile
temptations. He does not confound
the contents of his purse with those of
bis bralna or his heart, and It Is not
In figures that he esteems his fellow
1 men. His exceptional situation, far
from lifting him up, humiliates him,
because he really feels all that he
lacks to reach the heights of his duty.
He has remained a man, and that la
to Bay all. He is approachable, will
ing to help, nnd, far from raising with
bis goods a barrier to separate him
from the rest of men, he makes of
them a means of drawing more near
to them. Although the trade of being
rich has been singularly spoiled by so
many men, proud and egostlstlcal,
this one succeeds in making' himself
appreciated by whoever is not insen
sible to jusUce. Every one, when ap
proaching him and seeing his life, Is
obliged to turn to himself and ask:
"What would have become of me un
der the same circumstances? Should
I have that modesty, that' indifference,
that probity, which causes one to act
with his own as If It belonged to an
other?" So long as there is a world
and a human society there will be'
those harsh conflicts of interest; so
long as envy and egotism exist on the
earth, nothing will be more respecta
ble than riches filled with the spirit
of simplicity. It will do more than
to win pardon; it will win love.
a a
More malevolent than pride inspired
by wealth, is that inspired by power,
and by power I mean here all powers
which one man may have over anoth
er, whether it is great or little. I see
no way of avoiding that there should
be men in the world unequally power
ful. AH organization supposes a hier
archy of forces. We can never go
beyond that. But I fear that If the
taste for power is very widely spread,
the spirit of power will be lost By
understanding it badly and by misus
ing It, those who hold any parcel of
authority almost everywhere end by
compromising it.
Power exercises a powerful influ
ence over him who hold3 it It njeds
a strong hand not to be troubled by It.
This sort of dementia, which claimed
the Roman emperors in the days of
their despotic power, is a universal
malady, whose symptoms have ex.st-
ed In all age3 A tyrant sleeps in ev
ery man, and only waits a propitious
occasion to awaken. Now this tyrant
is -the worst enemy of authority, l.e-
cause he furnishes us an intolerable
caricature of it. From there come A
multitude of social complications, fric
tions and hatreds. All men who have
said, "You will do this because it is
my will," or better, "because it is my
good pleasure," do evil work. There
is something in each of us which in
vites us to resist personal power, and
this something is very respectable.
For at bottom we are equal, and there
is no person who has the right to ex
act obedience of me- because he is he
and I am I. In this case, his com
mand abases me, and it ls not permit
ted to let one's self be abased.
One must have lived in schools,
studios, in the administration of pub
lic offices, to have followed closely
the relations between men and ser
vants; to have stopped a little every
where where the supremacy of man
is exercised over man, to have an
Idea of what those do who practice
their power with arrogance. Of ev
ery free soul they make a soul en
slaved, that is to say, a soul in re
volt. And It seems that this terrible
antl-soclal effect is more surely pro
duced when he who commands la near
the condition of the one who obeys.
The most implacable tyrant is the
small tyrant. A foreman in a work
shop, or an overseer, puts more feroc
ity in hia suroundlnga that the direc
tor or the owner. Sueh a corporal ia
harder on his soldiers than the colo
nel. In certain houses, where ma-
dame has not much more education
than her maid the relations between
them are like those between a g alley
slave and his guard. Everywhere woe
to whoever falls into the hands of a
subaltern, drunk with hla authority.
XII
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